Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the action movie Drive Angry 3D. The album includes the original score by composer Michael Wandmacher. The soundtrack will be available digitally on February 22, 2011 and will get a CD release on March 8. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. An iTunes link will be added once the album becomes available. Drive Angry 3D centers around a vengeful father, who chases after the men who killed his daughter. The film directed by Patrick Lussier and starring Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard will be released in theaters on February 25. To find out more about the film, visit the official movie webpage and watch the trailer below. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Drive Angry’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: February 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 3D, Drive Angry, Michael Wandmacher, score, Soundtrack
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‘In Treatment’ Soundtrack album released
Posted: February 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: In Treatment, Richard Marvin, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the TV show In Treatment. The album includes the original score from the first two seasons of the HBO drama composed by Richard Marvin. Marvin is most well known for his features scores for U-571 and Surrogates, as well as for his music for the HBO show Six Feet Under. The soundtrack was released digitally earlier this week and can be downloaded on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips from the album. In Treatment centers around a psychotherapist played by Gabriel Byrne, who questions his abilities and gets help by reuniting with his old therapist, whom he has not seen for ten years. Byrne has won a Golden Globe Award for his lead performance. Read the rest of this entry »
Cliff Martinez to score ‘Contagion’
Posted: February 17, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cliff Martinez, Contagion, Steven Soderbergh
Cliff Martinez has been hired to score the upcoming action thriller Contagion. The film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!) centers on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. The movie’s cast includes Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Cranston and John Hawkes. Soderbergh and Martinez previously collaborated on such movies as Sex, Lies and Videotape, Kafka, Underneath, The Limey, Traffic and Solaris. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil scoring ‘The Killer Elite’
Posted: February 17, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 3, Drei, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Soundtrack, The Killer Elite, Tom Tykwer, Tomorrow When the War Began
Film Music Reporter has learned that the composer duo of Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil is scoring the upcoming action thriller The Killer Elite. The film directed by Gary McKendry stars Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The movie is based on the Ranulph Fiennes novel The Feather Men and and follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins. Among the film’s producers is Michael Boughen, who produced last year’s Australian hit movie Tomorrow, When the War Began, which featured a score by Klimek & Heil. No release date has been set yet for the Australian/American co-production, but the movie is expected to open later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Aaron Zigman scoring ‘Madea’s Big Happy Family’
Posted: February 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Zigman, Madea's Big Happy Family, Tyler Perry
Aaron Zigman is currently scoring the upcoming comedy Madea’s Big Happy Family starring and directed by Tyler Perry. Zigman has become Perry’s regular film composer, having scored the director’s last seven movies, most recently last year’s drama For Colored Girls. Madea’s Big Happy Family co-stars Loretta Devine, Bow Wow. The film is scheduled to be released on April 22, 2011 by Lionsgate. For more information on the film, watch the trailer below and visit the movie’s official webpage. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Broken Arrow’ Soundtrack released
Posted: February 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Broken Arrow, Chase Masterson, Hans Zimmer, Kristopher Carter, score, Soundtrack, Yesterday was a Lie
La-La Land Records has released an expanded soundtrack for the 1996 action movie Broken Arrow. The film’s music is written by Hans Zimmer. The soundtrack album comes in a 2 disc-set and features more than 30 minutes of previously unreleased music for a total running time of almost two hours. The soundtrack is limited to 3000 copies and can be ordered on La-La Land Record’s webpage. Also check out the page for audio clips from the score. Broken Arrow is directed by John Woo and stars John Travolta and Christian Slater. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rango’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hans Zimmer, Rango, Soundtrack
Paramount Pictures has revealed a new clip from the upcoming animated movie Rango directed by Gore Verbinski. The clip features Hans Zimmer’s orchestral arrangement of the Rango theme song by Los Lobos that was previewed a few weeks ago on the Los Angeles Times Music Blog. Watch the clip below after the jump and visit our previous article announcing the soundtrack release for the movie. For a high definition version of the clip, visit Yahoo Movies. The soundtrack album will be released on March 15, 2011 and Paramount will release the film on March 4. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Largo Winch II’ Soundtrack details
Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Largo Winch II, score, Soundtrack, The Burma Conspiracy
Varese Sarabande Records will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming adventure thriller Largo Winch II. The album includes 20 tracks of Alexandre Desplat’s score for the movie. Also known as The Burma Conspiracy, the film is a sequel to the 2008 thriller Largo Winch, which also featured a score by Desplat and is available to download on iTunes. The album will only be released as a physical CD in Europe, but will receive a digital release on iTunes in the US. The album release date has been scheduled for March 22, 2011. Largo Winch II stars Tomer Sisley and Sharon Stone and will receive a release in France on February 16. There are no current plans for a domestic release of the film. To find out more about the movie, visit the French movie webpage and check out the trailer below. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cliff Martinez, score, Soundtrack, The Lincoln Lawyer
UPDATE (February 25, 2011): Lakeshore Records has also announced a separate soundtrack album featuring songs from the movie. The album includes songs by such artists as Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, Marcus, Ari Hest and Gang Starr. To check out the full tracklist, visit Lakeshore Records’ soundtrack page.
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Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer. The album will include the original score by Cliff Martinez. The soundtrack will be released on March 15, 2011. The film is based on the best-selling novel by Michael Connell and is directed by Brad Furman. The movie’s cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy. Read the rest of this entry »
Jonny Greenwood to score ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’
Posted: February 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonny Greenwood, Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jonny Greenwood has signed on to score the upcoming indie drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. The film is directed by Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller. The movie is based on a novel by Lionel Shriver and centers around the mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree and tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility for her child’s actions by writing to her estranged husband. The film marks only third major scoring assignment for the Radiohead member after having previously scored Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood in 2007 and the recent Japanese drama Norwegian Woods. Read the rest of this entry »
